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Unique Business in Japan: A restaurant Run by People with Dementia
In Tokyo last year opened a unique restaurant. The name is “Restaurant of Mistaken Orders.†All the servers working there are people living with dementia, and they may or may not get your order right. Customers are supposed to accept mistaken orders, considering "This may be good, too." with a big heart. -
Designer’s Confession: How to Design Furniture (Michael Schneider) #1
People become less and less likely to buy things, but what we should not forget here is the fact that we can learn responsibility through owning things. In that sense, subscription and sharing business models may not be a perfect solution, though they are not a directly-opposed idea to possession. -
The Background of Product Development: Interview with a Manager #2
【Interview wit a product development manager】 Let me continue to share the interview with our product development manager. "Products in good quality and design don't always sell well." These words aroused my interest in his opinion on ... -
Difference in Production Management Between Ferrari and Toyota
【Production in Ferrari and Toyota】 According to the government, we have experienced the longest economic expansion since after the WWII. There is no doubt that it seems like we ordinary people are left out of the economic boom. Surpris... -
Doggies
When traveling in Yufuin, Kyushu (sorry, it's not about Hokkaido), last summer, I randomly walked into this famous Shiba Inu Café, which was the one I always wanted to visit. The reason why I like shooting animals more than people is be... -
The Background of Product Development: Interview with a Manager #1
【Interview with a product development manager】 Are you interested in our product development stories? I actually am! Due to specialization at work, I don't know much about how our products have been developed. Under the veil of ... -
Marketing Tips: What Is a Reasonable Price?
【What is a reasonable price?】 What do you think it is in the above image? I know it doesn't look like that, but it is a lounge chair. The chair can flexibly change its shape by moving each curved wooden strip consisting of the outer fr... -
Portrait Mode
Have you ever used the portrait mode of your Iphone camera? It uses the combination of two different lenses, plus data algorithm to reach an effect similar to what the optical lens of high-end cameras makes. Even though it's still a not-... -
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Japan
【The hotel was intact even after the Great Kanto Earthquake】 The Imperial Hotel was built in 1923, demolished in 1967. Only the entrance is still left as a museum in a small city in Aichi prefecture, far away from Tokyo where it was or... -
The Background of Product Development: How to Make a Wooden Chair #5
【Tense chemistry made in the process】 No matter how many times they have gone through the same process, the product development team gets tense when presenting the first prototype of a new design to designers and receiving their initia...
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